Snowstorm cooking: 8 great things to make

10:19 AM,
Feb. 8, 2013

Nothing beats having a pot roast going in the slow cooker during a snowstorm.

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When the snow is coming down hard outside, there's nothing like puttering around in a warm kitchen, taking the time to prepare something from scratch. Here are 8 of my favorite ways to pass a storm in front of the stove.

1. Brew a pot of French press coffee. Bring a pot of water to a boil and grind coffee. Into the pot, measure 1 tablespoon of grinds for each cup (that's 8 tablespoons for an 8-cup press, the most common size). After the water comes to a boil, let it sit for about a minute. (The optimum temperature is just below boiling.) Pour water over the grinds to open them up and let them "bloom," but ...